Adventure In The Mountains
Editor's Note: Since early March 2020, we were experiencing problems with our website. While we were working towards fixing the problems, Covid-19 happened. Since Reccemag is run by volunteers and volunteers are humans with other commitments and priorities too, we could not come up with a solution in between. Finally, we have decided to shift our contents, one article at a time to this temporary blog. Adventure in the mountains Gautam Dutta Digging ice hole for shelter on the North Face of Everest. Photo courtesy: Gautam Dutta About the author: Gautam Dutta is one of those rare Indian mountaineers who in the eighties and the early nineties, had not only set the trend of self supported, alpine style ascents in remote ranges of the Himalaya; but also climbed hard, looking for aesthetically beautiful lines...